Thoughts and commentary about the janitorial and office cleaning business.

12/15/2016

Hot tub rentals

Had an interesting moment recently. I took a call from a hot tub dealer; he needed a quote on janitorial service. (We clean much more commercial office space, both high-end and down and dirty industrial, than we do retail, and a lot of health care facilities, but pick up the odd retail establishment when given the opportunity.)

I'd expected a largish showroom, with different sizes, stiles and colors of tubs available, and perhaps a shipping, prepping and repair facility in the back. Pulling up to the facility, it seemed to be a standard 20- or 24-foot strip center suite, a bit smaller than I'd expected. On entering, I found a dozen of so small booths, each about the size of a hot tub.

Turns out each booth contained....a hot tub. The facility rented them by the hour, to whatever couple, triple or other arrangement happened to walk in. The tubs needed to be thoroughly sanitized, nightly. And with due care to avoiding exposure of my folks to various bodily fluids....

While we have pretty thorough hazmat and bio-hazard procedures and training in place, and protective gear up to full bunny suits, and while I don't like to walk away from paying business, in this particular case discretion proved the better part of valor.

We've offered janitorial services in Phoenix since 1974; hold the BBB's A-plus rating; and have long been in the forefront of the industry in environmentally sensitive cleaning for health, safety and security. Our office cleaning program can generally improve Indoor Air Quality, in the size range of most allergens, by a factor of 50%, as reflected in our ongoing IAQ sampling. We also furnish Green Seal certified recycled restroom paper products and janitorial supplies.